The Founders
Who are we?
Get to know the team that has taken on the arduous task
of preserving an entire world destined for imminent disappearance!
Pierre-Yves & Chenda Clais
The Founders
Married since 1997, Chenda and Pierre-Yves are two sides
of the same medallion.
Pierre-Yves lives to the rhythm of his passions and the thousand and one
ideas that come to him, Chenda lives to the rhythm of the administration
of their common creations.
Daughter of a doctor who died under Pol Pot, Chenda comes from a
Cambodian family in Phnom Penh, while Pierre-Yves is
a former UN mission paratrooper, who came to Cambodia
to live his dreams of adventure. In 1997, they married and then opened
a hotel in the former governor's residence of Ratanakiri
in Banlung.
During his many escapades with passing travelers,
Pierre-Yves learned to know this forest and the
twelve ethnic groups living there, gradually becoming a doctor,
advisor, and friend to some of these villages. Ratanakiri is
therefore a special region for the Clais couple, who maintain
an intimate relationship with this remote province of Cambodia.
